Improvement in fishing-reels



JAA-nts J.' Ross, or "BUFFALO, NEW

Aorv SAME rtnon.

Letters .Patent N 95,839, :dated October 12, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FISHING-Rents.

.The Schedule referred 'to in these Lettera Patent and .making part pf the same.

I, JAMES J. ROSS, of Bclfialo, in the county of Erie, nud the State of New York, have invented certain improvements in Fishingeela'of whichtlie follow- 'mg is' a specification;

The 'nature-of my invention 'consists in constructing o. fishing-reel, in such a manner that the fish-line may be wound up and unwound withfacility, current .of air t for, the purpose oil-'drying the fish-line upon the reel, whenever Wound upon the same.

I referto the drawing, which is a part of' this speci- Stitration.

I Figure 1 represents theA lishing-reel, in a. `perspecye view, secured to a fish-pole by vmeans of two bands D D.

Figure 2 shows the reel in a plan View.

Letter A is the niain frame of the reel. It is so mnstrnc'ted that the reel can revolve Within the frame,

y having one of the bearings vof the reel in the eenire, and engaging the same in a recess in the frame, and another, the opposite one, on the peripheryof the reel,^re\l'olving` Within the frame, as clearly illus- `i'rated by thedrawngs, thus leaving this end of the veel free, to enable the nse'of a hollow barrel -or reel, 'morder to facilitate -the drying of the fish-line.-

l Bis the barrel or reel. It is constructed of twov lsks, having a hole in theirI centre. They are conected together by means of a series of rods, 0,-wl1'icli f constitute a pulley. j

and that 'a may-pass ihhsuglx {hacen-tre 10fthe vreel, l-

Yoan, .essienon To SARAH ness fish-line when wet.

. The said disks-are povided,one with a pivot in itis centre, to answeras bearing, lthe otherwith a little; handle, by means of which the reel is turned; also "witl-ailittle-eceerrtrie, which 'has for its'-.0bjeet'= l stop the reel from4 turning, Whenever it is desired, impinging upon `the frame-ring A', as plainly lseen 1n 1 ,gIt will be observed, that when the eccentric, (l, brought in contact witl1 -A,it wil1 prevent the reel from Working only in one direction, while in theother' it may bewoi'ke'd at any time; also that the eecentrie, O, might be set so that vthe reel can lbe worked in any direction. i

.Having thus fully described my invention, i

lhat I desire to secure by Letters lPatent, ist The arrangement and vconstruction of the barrel on reel B, as described, and .for the use and purpose set OIill.4 5 Also, the lcombination of A', barrel or reel B, and eccentric, C, to operate'substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

y J AMESl J. ROSS.

Vitnesses:

H. WM. VDQrP MICH; J. STARK.- 

